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Institute of Dentistry - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Lifong Zou, BSc, MSc, PhD

Lifong

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Imaging

Email: l.zou@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8624
Room Number: Office 4, Floor 4, Institute of Dentistry

Profile

Lifong graduated in Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) with a BSc from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Early in her career, she used the first 3D CAD/CAM software programme in the world - CATIA (Dassault System) for the outline of aircrafts design and undercarriage simulation. With this expertise she came to England as a visiting scholar, working at British Aerospace (BAe) in Hatfield. Lifong has always been interested in medicine from young age and took an opportunity to apply the knowledge to computer aided metrology in life science and consequently gained PhD in QMUL. Her career, however diverse it may seem, has one thing in common – the application of the measurement of free-form surfaces.

Lifong has extensive applied knowledge in 3D-spatial, 4D-spatial & dynamic, 5D-spatial & dynamic & thermal imaging, particularly related to clinical applications. More recently she has extended her skills with involvement in the standardisation at national (BSI) and international (ISO) level. Lifong has always been motivated to work on new applications if it is beneficial to human health. She has developed and run the Life Surface Imaging Unit at the Institute of Dentistry in QMUL over the past three decades and kept the measurement delivery to a high standard. Having graduated in the BUAA and state registered Clinical Scientist, Lifong has transferred her knowledge in engineering and physics to dentistry and medicine, in that, she found it is extremely interesting.

Centre: Oral Bioengineering 

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